Each Tuesday, rather than a POSSIBLY
IRRITATING ESSAY, I'd like to both challenge you and lend a helping hand. I
generate more speculative and teen story ideas than I can ever use. My family
rolls its collective eyes when I say, "Hang on a second! I just have to
write down this idea..." Here, I'll include the initial inspiration
(quote, website, podcast, etc) and then a thought or two that came to mind.
These will simply be seeds -- plant, nurture, fertilize, chemically treat,
irradiate, test or stress them as you see fit. I only ask if you let me know if
anything comes of them. ?
z Z
SF Trope: Intelligent
Robots
Current Event:
This Arizona wildfire was predicted to go down in history as the Third Largest
in that state. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43290922/ns/weather/
If it continues much longer, it may well go down as the second largest – maybe
even the biggest one ever. They’ll bring in everything to stop it. Eventually,
there will be robots – not humanoid ones like in I, Robot, but more like water, fire and chemical squirting tanks.
Or possibly like the robots above. Of course, they’ll have to have a certain
amount of autonomy. So what happens to them after the fire?
Couple of guys
or girls are hiking in the mountains three or four years after a huge wildfire;
maybe working on college degrees or just vacationing. They stumble onto some
strange leavings and after poking around, discover a nest of these
semi-intelligent robots who not only survived the fire, they’ve established a
colony and they are making new copies of themselves…
Names: ♀
; ♂
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